VyOS and Mikrotik – VLAN-a-rama
For the novice networker, VLANs are easily one of the most misunderstood concepts. In this post, I'll go over some basics and demonstrate how to make the jump from separate…
Hacking a serial port into an EdgeRouter X
Although I'm not a huge fan of Ubiquiti stuff, some of the EdgeRouters hold a special place in my heart. The CLI isn't terrible, mostly like the VyOS CLI that…
10 gigabit inter-VLAN with a Mikrotik RB4011
Something I see pop up fairly regularly on a few of the forums, Discords, and subreddits that I hang out on is that the RB4011 is not capable of 10…
Battle of the Virtual Routers
This is going to be a bit of a long post, so I'll be brief in the intro. Over the last few years, I've become enamored with routing. As…
A New Switch for a New Day
I am constantly on the hunt for new switches. Between finding the right combination of power consumption, noise, and 10Gb, it seems like there is always something new on the…
Let’s Play with Routing – Part 1
In this series of posts, we'll be working through building a routing lab-within-a-lab featuring VyOS. If you are unfamiliar with VyOS, you can read more about it here. Over the…
RouterOS and Switching, finally managed
I think anybody that's ever used a Mikrotik and RouterOS can probably agree. That tiny company from Latvia does things a bit... different. Since October of 2017, I've been fighting…
Completed the Xeon D Lab with a Router
After my previous fun with assembling a server from scratch, you'd think I wouldn't be too excited to do it again. But I did it anyway... With only one non-Xeon…
